[kde-freebsd] security/pinentry-qt4

[Raphael Kubo da Costa]

Andriy Gapon <avg at FreeBSD.org> writes:

> On 20/11/2014 21:13, Dwayne MacKinnon wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The security/pinentry port has been upgraded to 0.90 and simultaneously the
>> qt4 frontend has been disabled with an IGNORE line.
>>
>> The port won't compile with /usr/lib/libc++.so. Fair enough.
>>
>> The thing is, pinentry has become much more important in recent iterations of
>> KDE. For example, if you're using the gpg backend for kwallet (which is
>> strongly recommended.)
>>
>> Naturally, the qt4 pinentry blends in best with KDE.
>>
>> I've looked at the error messages from clang, and I'll admit... this is beyond
>> my now-feeble coding skills. (I haven't coded regularly since 2006.) I'm
>> wondering if some folks around here might take up the cause.
>
> Just to be sure: is this the bug that does not allow to build the port
> https://bugs.g10code.com/gnupg/issue1758 ?

Yes.

Basically someone needs to make QString/QChar use pinentry's custom allocator
for safe memory operations.